Bravery is good when the cause is good.

It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Conceited little mega-puppy.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

In Jesus' Name eternal grace is sovereign in me and I am sovereign in life now

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

First and foremost, I am a mom. I get the most fulfillment being with my family.

Live it like its gospel , quote it like its scripture.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.